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                    Illustration: On December 11, 2005 Tony Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts was asked about his plans for the remainder of the regular season.  His team had just won it’s 13th game in a row to start the season and had clinched its division and home field advantage throughout the playoff, by
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2007
                
                
                
                    One time Jesus mentioned to his disciples that the temple and the other buildings in Jerusalem would be destroyed.  The disciples asked Jesus when this would happen.  He doesn’t give them a straight answer but one statement he says is:  (Mark 13:15 NIV) Let no one on the roof of his house go down
                    
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                    Contributed by Gerald Albers on Jun 5, 2007
                
                
                
                    There is a story about a young preacher that in 1995, he was in Glasgow Scotland. He wrote:  I was living in a Center City Hotel. One morning I got up and decided that I was going to jog over into the south side of the city of Glasgow. I ran across the river Clyde on a bridge, and as I jogged
                    
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                    Many of you know Ed and Brenda Flowers… in 1988 Brenda’s husband died suddenly of a heart attack… this left Brenda and her 14 yr. old daughter Kimberly all alone… Kimberly struggled with the loss of her father over the next few years, her behavior changed, she struggled with depression… and then on
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TAKE HOLD OF EVERY MOMENT 
    A friend of mine opened his wife’s drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package: 
    "This, - he said - isn’t any ordinary package." 
    He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box. 
    "She got this the first time we went to New
                    
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                    Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale’s passion became a reality. On September 28, 1863, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote a letter to President Lincoln and urged him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union
                    
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                    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Feb 1, 2007
                
                
                
                    I was a young youth pastor in Augusta, GA, doing my best to train a group of kids to reach out to others. Granted – some of my ideas met resistance (imagine that!), and the culture there turned out to be very different than what was actually communicated to me at the beginning. However, I figured
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 25, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Nietzsche said “A man can undergo torture if he knows the way of life,” but Christian Reger said, "here at Dachu, I learned something far greater. I learned to know the who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still.”
Christian Reger was a minister with the
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL.  Do you remember reading this article in the newspaper, "GIRL ACCUSED OF PRINCIPAL POISONING TRY"?  It says, "An 11-year-old girl tried to poison her principal in an attempt to prevent her parents from learning that she had been in a fight at school, police said.  The 5th grader had a
                    
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                    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Aug 23, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother. The first said, "I built a big house for our mother." The second said, "I sent her a Mercedes with a driver." The third smiled and said, "I’ve got
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE ORIGINS OF GRANDPARENTS' DAY
In 1970, a West Virginia housewife, Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade, initiated a campaign to set aside a special day just for Grandparents.  Through concerted efforts on the part of civic, business, church, and political leaders, this campaign expanded statewide.
                    
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                    Contributed by Victor Yap on Mar 20, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A local business puts a sign in the window, stating the following: “HELP WANTED. Must be able to type, must be good with a computer and must be bilingual. We are an equal opportunity employer.?
A short time afterwards, a dog trotted into the office manager’s office, jumped up on the chair and
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Aug 26, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ICHTHYS - THE  CHRISTIAN FISH SYMBOL
I’ve got a picture here.  Do you know what it is?
<>< (www.epworthsteeple.org/symbols.htm).  Yes, it’s a symbol of a fish.  But it’s more than that, it’s a Christian symbol going back to the time of the first years of the Christian church.  In the first century
                    
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